Further education open day at Galway Community College
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
GCC will be holding its Further Education Open Day on Wednesday next March 10, from 10am-4pm. In keeping with current trends and demand, the college currently offers 18 full time FETAC Level Five courses in business and media, performance and production, design and technology, social care, sport and horticulture.
Read more ...Win a pair of designer frames and two tickets to the Senior Times Over 50s Show with Specsavers
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
To celebrate the forthcoming Senior Times Over 50s Show, which takes place on of March 13 and 14 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Specsavers Galway has teamed up with the Galway Advertiser to offer two lucky readers a pair of gorgeous designer frames and two tickets to the show. In addition, the two winners will receive a complimentary eye test.
Read more ...Coole Park prepares for Tree Week
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
A range of events for all ages will take place in Coole next month as the park celebrates Tree Week as part of its spring cultural programme.
Sunday March 7 will see several events taking place in Coole including Coole Trees in Spring, a guided walk through the park with staff from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, who will explain how to identify different tree species in spring. This event will take place from 2.30pm to 4pm along with a range of indoor and outdoor family events including scavenger hunts and games.
Read more ...Rushie’s to be a barman in Coyotes
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Liverpool football legend Ian Rush is coming to Coyotes Late Bar on Forster Street this Saturday (March 6).
Read more ...Galway Community Acupuncture: a new model of practice
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Galway Community Acupuncture is a community centred healing practice with the aim to make acupuncture more accessible by making it more affordable. What distinguishes this model of practice is that treatments are offered in a comfortable and relaxed group setting.
Read more ...UHG urged to appoint new hospital manager after damning report
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the health authority to fasttrack the appointment of a new manager for University Hospital Galway in the wake of the facility’s poor showing in the HSE’s latest league tables.
Read more ...Ballinasloe included in flood risk study
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Ballinasloe will be included in the major new Shannon Flood Risk Management Study to be commissioned by the Office of Public Works in the summer.
Read more ...Stop dismantling health service Government warned at Galway meeting
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says the campaign by public sector workers to reverse the pay cuts in the Budget must also make sure that the dismantling of the public health service is stopped.
Read more ...Don’t leave boxes and bags outside bottle banks says McNelis
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
People leaving bottles in the city’s bottle banks should not leave behind boxes and bags that have been used to carry the glass, but should carry it home.
Read more ...Danish man dies suddenly while working on Loughrea wind turbine
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A man has died suddenly while working on a wind turbine in south Galway.
Read more ...Bang a drum and raise money for Haiti
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
On Sunday more than 100 Tribal Spirit Drummers from across Ireland will gather in NUI, Galway in a fundraising event for earthquake relief in Haiti.
The drummers will play rhythms and songs from Haiti and Africa from 4.30pm to 6pm, and will be the culmination of a day of family events in the university’s student centre.
Read more ...Search for the elusive Nash after daredevil graffiti artist tattoos city
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Under the cloak of darkness in the early hours of Sunday morning, a person known by his/her paintwork as Nash scaled an incredible height to decorate the gable end of Garvey’s bar and hotel on Eyre Square with graffiti.
Read more ...Galway city recognised as hub for medical technology industry by global organisation
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Galway has been recognised as the hub for the medical technology industry. TOPRA, the global organisation for regulatory affairs professionals, has selected the city for its first Irish-based training programme in medical technology regulatory affairs.
Read more ...Winner of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh to be announced tonight
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Final preparations are currently under way for the award ceremony of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh which is to take place tonight at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Joyces 365 and Oxfam take part in Fairtrade fortnight
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Fairtrade Fortnight has begun and with Joyces 365 and Oxfam getting in on the action there will be plenty of delights in store for customers for yet another week.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser is still the runaway leader in local newspaper circulation race
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Galway Advertiser has maintained its position as the highest circulation local newspaper in the country at a time when recently published ABC audit figures for Ireland's newspaper industry show a dramatic decline in the circulation of almost all 'paid for' newspapers, both local and national.
Read more ...Waterways to be searched in missing man probe
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Garda helicopter will travel to Galway tomorrow to participate in the search for a man who went missing in Galway last December.
Read more ...Grealish calls for solution to Calasanctius row
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Calasanctius College and the Department of Education must reach an agreement to facilitate 23 children who have been refused a place at the school for the 2010/2011 year.
Read more ...Jockey murder accused to face further charges
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Further charges could be brought against a 37-year-old man accused of murdering two promising young jockeys, including Claregalway teen Jamie Kyne, who perished in a blaze at a UK block of flats last year.
Read more ...Search of river follows reports of ‘body’ in water
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A search and rescue operation was launched in the early hours of yesterday following reports that a body had been spotted in the river near Wolfe Tone Bridge. However an extensive search of the area revealed nothing, and the incident is now believed to have been a false alarm.
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